The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially confirmed the appointment of Colonel General Viktor Afzalov as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). This has been reported Web site departments.
The publication states that Afzalov was appointed to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces in October 2023 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation.
Before this, Colonel General Viktor Afzalov officially became the commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces. reported With reference to sources TASS and RIA Novosti. He has been performing his official duties since August, but only now has he been able to rid his post of the “acting” prefix. Before that, this post belonged to Army General Sergei Surovikin.
Viktor Afzalov was born on June 9, 1968. St. He studied at the Pushkin Higher Military Air Defense Radioelectronics School in St. Petersburg and graduated in 1989. He then entered the Military Air Defense University of the Russian Armed Forces in Smolensk, then the General Staff Academy of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow, graduating in 2010.
Putin before signed Law on raising the draft age.